Bad Vudu: Thieves steal personal information after break-in of Walmart’s video service

After robbers stole broke into Walmart's video service Vudu's offices in March, the company reset customer passwords today.

Holy hard drives! Seagate breaks terabit barrier, 60TB drive coming

Hard drive manufacturer Seagate has become the first company of its kind to reach the storage density of 1 terabit (1 trillion bits) per square inch, an incredible milestone that will lead to even larger hard drives like a 60TB …

WD resumes hard drive production after Thailand floods

Western Digital, one of the world’s biggest storage companies, said today that it has resumed hard drive production in Thailand as flood waters recede in that country. But shortages will likely still happen in the current and future quarters.

The …

When it rains … WD has to pay $525M to Seagate in trade-secret theft settlement

When it rains, it pours for hard disk maker WD. Already hit by floods in Thailand that have hobbled production of hard drives, WD has now been hit with an arbitration court decision ordering it to pay $525 million to …

Flooding in Thailand could curtail hard drive production

Western Digital reported today that the production of its hard drives in Thailand have been jeopardized because of severe flooding in the region near Bangkok.

The company said that hard drive production will be constrained in the current quarter. The …

Enterprise solid state memory provider Pure Storage snags $30M

Pure Storage, a developer of solid state storage drives for businesses that need to store a lot of data, announced today that it has raised $30 million in its third round of funding, led by Greylock Partners, Redpoint Ventures and …